HarmoniesWays to pair this color with others by where they sit on the color wheel: its opposite, shapes of two to four colors spaced around the wheel, its neighbors on either side, then the same hue lighter, darker, warmer, cooler and quieter. Each strip leads with this color. Tap one to open its kit built that way.
How It Reads#AE609A set as type with the kit Chromary builds for it, both ways round, strongest first. Each is graded by APCA, the measure of how strongly text stands off its ground as eyes see it: Any text and Body text read at every size, Headlines and large text from about 24 pixels, Display sizes for names, logos and big headlines. Pairings too faint for text, or that collapse for red- or green-blind readers, are left out. The small numbers are the APCA score (Lc) and the WCAG 2 ratio, for anyone working to a standard.
Milk on #AE609A#AE609ASet in Milk on #AE609A, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 66 · 3.8:1#AE609A on Milk#AE609ASet in #AE609A on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 61 · 3.8:1Cherry Blossom on #AE609A#AE609ADisplay sizesLc 42 · 2.6:1#AE609A on Cherry Blossom#AE609ADisplay sizesLc 39 · 2.6:1Dust on #AE609A#AE609ADisplay sizesLc 38 · 2.4:1#AE609A on Dust#AE609ADisplay sizesLc 35 · 2.4:1
For every eye: Milk on #AE609A
#AE609ARed-blind (protanopia)#AE609AGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#AE609ABlue-blind (tritanopia)#AE609ANo color (achromatopsia)